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The Aesthetics of Music » Read Now
by Roger Scruton. 530 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Music » Read Now
by Edward A. Lippman. 249 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music » Read Now
by Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles E. Ives. 188 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...THREE CLASSICS IN THE AESTHETIC OF MUSIC Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater...Claude Debussy Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni Essays before...Press...
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The Essentials of Aesthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1921) » Read Now
by George Lansing Naymond. 404 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...ESSENTIALS OF AESTHETICS IN MUSIC, POETRY, PAINTING...OF COMPARATIVE AESTHETICS AS PRESENTED IN...IN POETRY AND MUSIC", AND "PROPORTION...in logic and music, commonly...
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Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock » Read Now
by Theodore Gracyk. 282 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

A happy marriage of aesthetic theory and the aesthetic practice that moved a generation, 'Rhythm and Noise' is the only thorough-going account of rock as a distinct artistic medium rather than a species of popular culture.
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Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music » Read Now
by Simon Frith. 352 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most deeply held values, make meaning of our...
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Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject and discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture and colour our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of poplar aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's for real -- these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgements but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.
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The Language of Music » Read Now
by Deryck Cooke. 290 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

First published in 1959, this original study argues that the main characteristic of music is that it expresses and evokes emotion, and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to affect the listener in the same...
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First published in 1959, this original study argues that the main characteristic of music is that it expresses and evokes emotion, and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to affect the listener in the same ways. He supports this view with hundreds of musical examples, ranging from plainsong to Stravinsky, and contends that music is a language in the specific sense that we can identify idioms and draw up a list of meanings. The book's final section analyzes two symphonies, Mozart's Fortieth and Vaughan Williams's Sixth, to explore the nature of musical inspiration and the process whereby the notes actually convey emotion from composer to listener.
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The Perception of Music » Read Now
by Robert Frances, W. Jay Dowling. 375 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...1. Music--Psychology. 2. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics. I. Title. ML3830.F7213 1988...International Society for Experimental Aesthetics from 1966 to 1971 . In...
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Greatness in Music » Read Now
by Alfred Einstein, Cesar Saerchinger. 294 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...GREATNESS IN MUSIC GREATNESS IN MUSIC ALFRED EINSTEIN TRANSLATED BY CESAR SAERCHINGER OXFORD...AUTHOR of these reflections on the conditions for greatness in music is, by...
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Thinking about Music: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (Chap. 10 "Comparative Aesthetics: India and Japan") » Read Now
by Lewis Rowell. 290 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library